Re: Maybe I am too American
"Human resources" sounds too much like a supplier to the Soylent Corporation.
Posts by Anon
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Douglas Adams was right: Telephone sanitizers are terrible human beings
Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable
Tuesday 11th July 2023 18:09 GMT
Re: Where do you live?
It'll need a new belt by now, and probably also the rubber suspension band that holds the motor will need to be replaced, if my Planar 3 from the 80s is anything to go by. New belts/bands are cheap. Careful of the screws: they are only plastic. Oh, and have a look at the capacitor too—they used those infamous RIFA ones. A safe replacement one is cheap from RS.
Ring system discovered around dwarf planet Quaoar leaves astronomers puzzled
UK Supreme Court snubs Assange anti-extradition bid
Deutsche Bank seeks options as sanctions threaten Russian dev unit
Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs
Nothing to scoff at: Crisps and nuts biz KP Snacks smacked in ransomware hack attack
Billionaires see wealth double during pandemic as tech bros lead the charge
Tuesday 18th January 2022 18:07 GMT
Re: ... would each get $100 or so.
But if a village of people getting $100 pooled the money, they could buy tools to help till the land, seeds suitable for their environment that would produce plants that produced seeds for the next year, schooling materials for education - especially for girls, and so on. The lack of a shop in the next village does not preclude the purchase of items.
Wi-Fi not working? It's time to consult the lovely people on those fine Linux forums
The Filth Filter is part of the chipset, honest. Goes between the TPM and SEP. No, really
BOFH: Time to put the Pretty Dumb F in PDF reader
We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage
Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick
Happy 60th, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches
NASA fixes Hubble Space Telescope using backup power supply unit, payload computer
Kaspersky Password Manager's random password generator was about as random as your wall clock
Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract
Openreach to UK businesses: Switch is about to hit the fan. Prepare for withdrawal of the copper-based phone network now or risk disruption
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say
Seagate finds sets of two heads are cheaper than one in its new and very fast MACH.2 dual-actuator hard disks
Friday 4th June 2021 19:14 GMT
Is it really a new idea?
This was an obvious idea since hard disk drives were created. Why didn't the massive performance improvement of zero track-to-track delay (taking into account rotational latency) for larger files, and better performance anyway, from having two complete sets of heads ever become a thing? Or did it, and it never made it to user-level compoinents?
OVH reveals it's scrubbing servers – to get smoke residue off before rebooting
Apple's latest macOS Big Sur update stops cheapo USB-C hubs bricking your machine
CD Projekt Red 'EPICALLY pwned': Cyberpunk 2077 dev publishes ransom note after company systems encrypted
How do you save an ailing sales pitch? Just burn down the client's office with their own whiteboard
Monday 1st February 2021 12:42 GMT
Re: Switching
A 240/230/220/110 switch usually indicates that a large iron-core transformer is being used, and the switch changes which tap on the primary is used, or for 110 V puts two (to better handle the doubled current) primary windings in parallel.
Not all switched-mode power supplies have an active power factor correction (PFC) stage which can work with a large range of input voltages. The ones that don't have active PFC have a switch to change between the input capacitors being wired in parallel (for 110 V) or series (for 230 V); they will of course only be rated for 200 V or so as there's no point using larger and more expensive capacitors. 230 VAC rectified gives about 325 V. Electrons with an excitement level of 325 V are partying too hard to be contained by a 200 V-rated cap, and the magic smoke and sparks escape.
Cisco intros desktop switches, one with USB-C to power your laptop
Extreme Networks misses death-of-Flash deadline, suggests winding back PC clocks to keep its GUI alive
Brexit freezes 81,000 UK-registered .eu domains – and you've all got three months to get them back
Tuesday 5th January 2021 16:42 GMT
Re: I won’t be able to use what I’ve paid for
What are the published uncertainties/error bounds/spread/confidence levels in PWC's predictions?
The report you appear to quote from,
https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/uk-could-remain-top-10global-economy-in-2050.html
says that the UK could fall from 9th to 10th or 5th to 9th place in the world by 2050, depending on the measure chosen.
FALL.
Trump's overhaul of Section 230 stalls, Biden may just throw the web legal shield on the bonfire anyway
My website has raised its anchor and set sail into the internet oceans without me
Cats: Not a fan favourite when the critters are draped around an office packed with tech
BOFH: Switch off the building? Great idea, Boss
For every disastrous rebrand, there is an IT person trying to steer away from the precipice
[Checks meeting agenda...] Where does it say 'Talk cr*p and waste everyone's time'?
Python swallows Java to become second-most popular programming language... according to this index
Saturday 14th November 2020 21:33 GMT
Re: "My first programming language, at age 9, was a Lisp dialect."
Oh aye, lickin' the user input: first stage garbage collection. Next step were th' cleaning out th' next generation shite wi' owse toes, down th' sewers if we'se were lucky. T'urd generation garbage? That's only rich kids, wi' their fancy grammar 'n' some idea of a consistent accent.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
